Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10471440 | Social Science & Medicine | 2012 | 13 Pages |
Abstract
⺠This study examines the interactive contextual effect of income inequality on physical functioning and activity limitations in the U.S. ⺠Increasing income inequality strengthens the protective effects of family income, employment, college education, and marriage on these two measures of health. ⺠High school education's protective effect (relative to less than a high school education) weakens in the context of increasing income inequality. ⺠Increasing income inequality exacerbates men's disadvantages in physical functioning and activity limitations. ⺠These findings shed light on research about growing health disparities in the U.S. in the last several decades.
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Authors
Hui Zheng, Linda K. George,